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October 11-1940.
or
BREAD BULLETS?
The question whether food may decide the European war has become increasingly important in recent weeks of intensified blockade and counter-blockade..
An economic conflict, clouded by military conditions and by censorship is going on behind the spectacular aerial warfare raging over Europe and raising the ques- tion of whether shortage of food and other supplies can affect the outcome of the military conflict as it did in the World War.
situation was becoming "very dll- Acul in the Industrial areas of Poland, Norway, and Belgium.
The German army advance, how- ever, have not caused a vast destruc-
By Clifford L. Day United - Press Staff Correspondent
Bread will be as important na bullets for European belligerant nations if the war goes into an-tion of crops, according to the British, If Poland is excepted. One other winter.
neutral diplomat in London summed up the prospects for Norway in these words:
But a recent survey showed that both Great Britain and Germany
in Norway
profess to believe that while food Food position desperate will be limited, strict control of supplies will offset any danger of general famine in Europe in the im- mediate future.
"It is going to be a simple dict- Just Bah,"
Britain, with a tightened system of rationing, is depending on the navy and air force to keep open lines of from overseas,
Ai harvest time in this war year, But he expressed doubt that there the belligerent powers are bending would be any serious famine. every effort to choke off enemy At present an excellent potato and supplies and to overcome the direct beet erop is in prospect for Europe, or indirect effects of devastating and if this materialises as expected, modern warfare, economic strangula-it will compensate for other short- tion by blockade or counter-blockadenges. and the subsequent threat of oven- tual food shortage or actual famine.
and the Food may eventually be a de-supplies cisive factor in the war, many government has assured Commons that new methods of combating the neutral observers believe, providing Nazi aerial blockade were proving there is no sudden and tremendous effective. One method is the use of milltary blow bring a quick balloon barrages on ships being con change in the whole trend of the voyed through the English Channel. conflict. But both sides point out Balloons are attached to cables on that big reserves of food had been the decks of the British ships in order to block German dive-bombers. war and that But counter attack by Royal Air THE praux "Special to the Telegraph" created before the ls used by the Hongkong Telegraph" to indicate news which is strictly copyright economic war is a slow process, so Force fighters is still the most re- the British
their liable defensive weapon. under the provisions of the Telecommunixlow that estions Ordinance, 1816, Buch sour blockade is not scheduled to produce
In addition, British has plowed up bears the indicatión “U” is received in Itongkons on the date of pohllestion by
a "telling" effect on Germany until thousands of acres of land normally the United Press Associations, who re-
! unused~~~including many big estates nerva all rights and forbid republication. late in 1941.
--to produce food for the winter. either wholly or m part without previous arrangement,
the the colours to tend the fields.
Friday, Oct. 11, 1940.
Wyndham St, Hongkong Telephone: 20015
TIMETABLES
A great deal has been said about Hitler's supposed "time- tables" of conquest. Last May during the battle of France, the German Propaganda Ministry was pumping out with its naual attempted mesmeric insistence a succession of rumours, reports, and semi-official statements that
an armistice be signed on June 27, and that the Army of the
August 15.
to
say
concern
The sharpest disagreement regard-Women have replaced men called to severe shortage In Hitler forces a gigantic
new task
аз
ing food conditiona prospects of a varlous war-torn
Buch areas France, Belgium, Poland, and Nor- way.
close to famine
and
·FUNNY SIDE UP
By Abner Dean
ABNER DEAN
"If the captain of that tramp steamer wants to talk to me, tell him to come around the back way!"
Geography Will
Fight for Britain
By David J. Murphy
Relch would be in London by war and therefore any starvation in ion. British sources have reported further protected by secret andinowers of resistance, Unless the
a waiting world. It is true that
Nazis.
Few Landing Grounds
To cross that strip of water which
This multiplicity of hedges natural- separates Britain from the Continent, the Germans must Arst tackle that cuts down the size of English element which is foreign to most of fields, and the number of open spaces which troop-carrying acro-
upon
than
is
most.
One of Britain's strongest progress, and these obstacles
invadera from the air. defences against an invader also present new difficulties for England has few mountains- is-Britain!
Apart from the man-made but an abundance of hills. The defences which now ring countryside from the const in. the coast, Nature has pro- land, is composed of hills and dales which could be easily de- vided the people of Britain fended against much larger with a ready-made fortress. forces. Only on the east coast Between the would-be invader are there stretches of flat coun- Germany has transported many Typical of the conflicting claims is thousands of Police to the Relch to and his objective there stands try, and to reach them an in- Belgium, where US. Ambassador work on farms and has undertaken first the barrier of the sca. Be vading army would have to John Cudahy asserted that 8,000,000 the tremendous task of restoring fore Hitler's army puts a foot face a long sea crossing with
normal channels of supply.
on British soil, it has to cross, negligible sea-power to support persons would be
Hitler is facing a gigantle task in at the narrowest point, 21 miles it. this Autumn if they failed to re-governing and making use of more of a seaway that is swept by the Moreover, the British countryside ceive foreign supplies. That was than 50,000,000 persons in eight disputed in both London and Berlin. European countries his armies en flercest tides and is liable to the le unique for its hedges and park- comparatively few main roads, most The British reply was that the cred in the last 17 months, but in most sudden of weather changes, lands. With the exception of the addition the Axis powers have sought The seaward approaches to of the highways, are narroto and blockade of German-held territory to
orbit into the Nazi-Fascist
the and stout hedges, which also criss- Paris would fall about June 15, would continue and that Adolf Hitler pacify the Balkons, swing them the British Isles are, in fact, winding, and are flanked by ditchar
cross the countryside.
hedge has remarkable An English personally had declared that Ger- resume production which was inter- among the trickiest in many had sufficient stores for a long upted by long periods of mobilisa-world and now that they are
poor crop prospects in some Balkan extensive minefields they con-invader were able to land tanks-s doubtful proposition-these Belgium would be the fault of the areas, but the German press is fore-stitute a great hazard to any highly
Innumerable hedges would present a casting a good harvest.
invader.
tremendous obstacle to invaders on That dato Bel for the
At Berlin a responsible German In many countries invaded and And, the sea is the Briton's root. triumphal entry of the Nazia source declared that Belgium crop occupied by the Germans it has been
normal charged that the Nazis have drained natural element. He fights on into the British capital has long were only alightly under
the new territory of food. But the it with all the dash and daring come and gone, and the failure despite the war and that the country Nazis say they sent soup kitchens which only centuries of sca of the menacing forecast has still has considerable reserves, which behind their invading armies and tradition can make possible.
were necumulated before the German that German welfare organisations have fed and cared for millions of been prominently pointed out by
Invasion.
destitute refugees.
In the Netherlands, Belgium, Den- the mid-August date did bring Germany claims she is
mark and Norway one of the first them ready for blockade
effects of German occupation was And even if the, crossing planes could land with safety
smaller considerably a German mass air raid of un-
Indeed, one of
one of the precedented intensity, adding to Germany at present is prepared to the rationing of food, clothes, shoes, were accomplished, the invaders people
people imagine. would find that their difficulties great problems that has had to be the casualties and damage for make up any shortages in the Bel- and other articles.
glan food supply by Importations
In the Netherlands and Belgium, were only just beginning. By faced in the RAF expansion which civilization ultimately from the Reich and from other Ger-
able altes for conversion into airfield, returned to their farms and de- must hold the Nazi regime man occupied territories, this Berlin according to Berlin, farmers were far the greater part of the Bri-gramme has been the lack of
mobilised soldiers returned to their tish coastline is made up of The open spaces that remain are source said. morally responsible. But this is "Neither Belgium nor German will jobs in connection with the German rugged cliffs and rocks, many of either hilly or dotted with trees and Many a peace-time air very different from the land-starve this winter, nor would Ger- campaign to restore normal condi- them bold and precipitous. Ap-hedges.
planes forced down by engine failure and-sea invasion by hundreds of many starve if the British could tions Immediately and thus profit by proximately two-thirds of the crash has proved fatal because coast presents to an invader came to grief through crashing into thousands of troops without maintain their blockade for many the production of these nations,
In occupied France, the
English hedge. years," this source continued. which there could scarcely bo "On the other hand, the situation was far slower and more painful.. any occupation of Britain. And is likely to grow critical in France Many northern French towns and the attacking air forces have end in England, which unlike Ger- villages were devastated during the many are not prepared for such a war and forms were untended, be- cause the mentolk were killed or in paid heavily in losses.
siege."
German prison camps. It is evident that the German Two neutral observers who arrived
Cattle were killed or driven off by
hedge and woodland, and added, "Anyone who has been in a High Command has more than in Berlin recently after a short trip
t German-occupied, areas of Bel-refugees or seized by armies. Areas
Much of the west coast of bottle zone knows that a good hurdle its own speed of movement to gum and France said that surface along the English Channel coast are
tolike dead country.
England can be ruled out as the is worth its weight in gold there."
It would be no exaggeration to say calculate in setting any supposed indications at present. seemed
Denmark recently had to slaughter possible scene of sea-borne in
that an invader would find hundreds support the Nazi claims. These ob- schedule of triumphs, and that servers said that, while it was im- many cattle because of inability to vasion. If this form of attack of thousands of these hurdles stretch- is to come, it will probably being out across the whole of England any would-be hypnotic assertions possible to make it a thorough in-import feed for them.
launched against one of the few-in the shape of hedges that have put out from Berlin as part of vestigation, the restaurants and the markels were operating and there
Hitler Thinks Poison
Another fact of great importance is the propaganda of war to seemed to be plenty of food.
The east, in Lincolnshire, or on the ploughing up campaign that is paralyze resistance need not and' Nevertheless, the general view of
Gas Humane' the south along parts of the now in full swinge should not be fatalistically neutrals in Europe is that both Ger-
const of Kent, Sussex and More than 2,000,000
have been put to the grassland accepted.
There is in the many and Britain face a tremendous problem In organising food supplies
Hampshire. Says Neutral Reporter British resistance a morale, a as long as the war continues. Both
production thus reducing still fur- have taken far-reaching measures Hitler, seeking justification for at- Or else the attacker must plough in the drive for greater food unity and determination, which toward that objective and toward tacking open towns, and for using concentrate on small gaps in the ther: the spaces on which it would poison gas, is preparing an appeal to higher coastline, gaps which are be possible to land air-borne, troops. Nazi arms have not heretofore choking off the enemy's supplies.
kap But: England is not facing an encountered; and to a people British experts have made a study the world for realisation that these well-guarded. *
sacrifice defending their homeland from of European conditions and they actions are prompted by "humane The steps that have bech ordinary Invader. Then, Germans
taken to prepare the danger would probably be willing to
to conquer million, men in order, to icon contend that most, if not all, nations moves."
The Berlin reporter of an Athens points of the coast against in her last and most!!
most formidable op wanton attack there are, more-will be eating into their reserves the over, factors of aid which a coming winter. They reported belief newspaper reported that Nazi envoya vasion are secret but anyone ponent. That why every pre- that: dificulties of distribution would all over the world will shortly notify who has visited these defence caution being taken, and why the pagan materialism cannot cause severe abortages in areas such the Governments to which they are
pleasant to fathom,
as occupied France and that the food accredited that this war is too areas can see for himself evi felds and parklands which were
The Apostle James warned men against saying, "To-day or slaughter. The people who up to-morrow we will go into such hold the ideals of peaceful, free,
Suit-
process sheer walls of chalk, clay or an unyielding the County Sur-
scaleable. rock, walls that are largely un- Few Gaps in the Wall
Only veyor of Essex made an appeal for "housands and thousands" of wattle hurdles, to be used against any pos
invader. He declared that
brushwood
abounded in
at stretches of coastline on been rooted in for centuries,
once
acres of
the eye are now
by every kind of obstacle it!
terrible to go 'ón,” ORGANING VAN Dzidence of the extensiveness and silento imaginedes AMANA
continuing, so in the Interests of The largest army
ever con2SMANHIALNY IN cars, heaps off
"Britain alone," It will be intensiveness of the prepara alleged; is responsible for the wor tione. Van Drain
alm
obstacles now
of England and when he
But the great- #F, KKabure? who
humanity, Germany must use every centrated in Britain is ready to a city, even merely to buy and orderly, constructive living
ment to bring Britain to her deal with any Germans who ven comer will and a host of new sell for gain, counselling that on among nations have strong, knees ture on an Invasion by sea. the Lord's willingness depended abiding inner conviction to -yayading this project, the German Is a German force did succeed est all human plan. Providence support their affirmation that Government feels justified in abro- certainly bestows no blessing metables of destruction do not anting her former pledged to the in gaining a footing, there are
world that open cities will be roared: many other natural as wel www.and that poison gas will not be used in man-made obstacles to bar.
ravage Zend whöld trus now or ove
and into a natural
raphy-- has providedr the best of all defen-